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'I Can't Watch Anymore' (eBook, ePUB)
~EN NWISBN: 9788797354315 bzw. 8797354317, vermutlich in Englisch, Epona Media A/S, neu.
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Passionate, yet rigorous and meticulously researched, this eye-opening book holds equestrian sport up to Olympic standards and finds it sadly wanting.Doping agents that used to cost Olympic medals, rebranded as benign 'medication'.Shell federations with no riders or horses, propped up to make the sport seem'global'. Judging that favours spectacle over the rules. From the myth ofgender equality, to the failure to prevent rollkur, to the easing of the 'bloodrule' to appease riders, to horses competing with the nerves in their legs cutto numb the pain of injuries: this is a tale of entitlement, privilege, andspineless regulation, always at the expense of the horse. 'I Can't WatchAnymore' chronicles and explains how the bureaucrats who run the FederationEquestre Internationale (FEI) have stripped and sold for parts one of theoldest Olympic sports in the world until finally, there is nothing left topreserve.This compelling book challenges thereader to confront the reality of high-level equestrian competition today andsay, along with so many others, 'I can't watch anymore'.
Passionate, yet rigorous and meticulously researched, this eye-opening book holds equestrian sport up to Olympic standards and finds it sadly wanting.Doping agents that used to cost Olympic medals, rebranded as benign 'medication'.Shell federations with no riders or horses, propped up to make the sport seem'global'. Judging that favours spectacle over the rules. From the myth ofgender equality, to the failure to prevent rollkur, to the easing of the 'bloodrule' to appease riders, to horses competing with the nerves in their legs cutto numb the pain of injuries: this is a tale of entitlement, privilege, andspineless regulation, always at the expense of the horse. 'I Can't WatchAnymore' chronicles and explains how the bureaucrats who run the FederationEquestre Internationale (FEI) have stripped and sold for parts one of theoldest Olympic sports in the world until finally, there is nothing left topreserve.This compelling book challenges thereader to confront the reality of high-level equestrian competition today andsay, along with so many others, 'I can't watch anymore'.
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